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| September 19, 2003 | Friday | Rajab 21, 1424 |
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Iraqis should get power in months: Chirac
BERLIN, Sept 18: France and Germany both said on Thursday they could help train Iraqi soldiers and police, but France insisted the United States hand power to an Iraqi government in... 
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Bali bomber gets life sentence
BALI, Sept 18: Remorseful Bali bomber Ali Imron was jailed for life on Thursday for helping organize and execute last year’s deadly nightclub attacks, but he escaped the death penalty given...
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Bush urges Palestinians to cast off Arafat
CAMP DAVID, Sept 18: US President George Bush urged Palestinians on Thursday to cast off Yasser Arafat, blaming him for “stalled” Middle East peace efforts and charging he had thwarted efforts...
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Kabul police chief sacked amid land scandal
KABUL, Sept 18: The powerful police chief of Kabul was sacked on Thursday, a week after the United Nations accused him of involvement in a land grab scandal....
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Taliban ‘besieged’ in school
URGUN, Sept 18: Dozens of suspected Taliban were besieged in a madressah by Afghan troops on Thursday in an eastern border region at the centre of an apparent resurgence by the...
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Suu Kyi undergoes surgery
YANGON, Sept 18: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has undergone surgery for gynaecological problems at a private hospital in Yangon, an exiled Myanmar group said on Thursday....
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Israel rejects Arafat ceasefire offer
TEL AVIV, Sept 18: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat told Israelis on Thursday they should be ashamed of themselves for wanting him dead and appealed to them to help restore a shattered...
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Blix terms invasion unjustified
LONDON, Sept 18: Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Thursday the US-led invasion of Iraq was not justified, and that Washington and London had “over-interpreted” information from their...
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Osama marshals forces from cave: aide
DUBAI, Sept 18: Osama bin Laden is running the “war” against the United States from a cave, a press report said on Thursday, quoting a source it said was the chief...
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Kelly should have been suspended, inquiry told
LONDON, Sept 18: Weapons expert David Kelly should have been suspended for talking to reporters about the way intelligence was used to take Britain into the Iraq war, an inquiry into...
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Law can’t solve veil issue in France: official
PARIS, Sept 18: As far as French state secretary for social affairs Francois Fillon is concerned, if Paris wants to stop young Muslim women from wearing the veil, it’s not the...
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Paris plans joint ventures with Tel Aviv
PARIS, Sept 18: The French foreign office said on Thursday that the government is contemplating to increase cooperation with Israel and to undertake a number of joint projects in the fields...
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US firm to print Eid cards
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18: This year, for the first time ever, a leading US greeting cards manufacturing company will print greeting cards for Eidul Fitr, a company spokesperson said....
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Africa: a non-issue for Bush administration
WASHINGTON: Except for a brief, mostly ceremonial trip earlier this year to some of the more peaceful parts of Africa, US President George W. Bush has shown little interest in Africa...
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Saudis set sights on N-capability?
LONDON/VIENNA: Saudi Arabia, in response to the current upheaval in the Middle East, has embarked on a strategic review that includes acquiring nuclear weapons....
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Jailed for reporting on Al Qaeda
MADRID: When does building journalistic contacts with Islamist radicals become a crime of aiding and abetting terrorism? That is what al-Jazeera war correspondent Tayssir Alouni, the most successful television journalist of...
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World antes up for Iraq, but not for humanitarian crises
UNITED NATIONS: The international community is so obsessed with its fight against global terrorism that it continues to neglect ongoing humanitarian crises in Africa and Asia, a leading aid organization complained...
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London police face race boycott
LONDON: The London Metropolitan police was last week plunged into its biggest crisis over race since the damning Macpherson report when its own black officers warned ethnic minority people not to...
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